There is an Upper Burial Ground and a Lower Burial Ground. Each is independent of the other. Both the Germantown Historical Society and the trustees of the Upper Burial Ground have a list of the contributors to the front wall. Thones Kunders is not listed with the Lower Burial Ground. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Swain" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 7:32 PM Subject: [ORIGINAL-13] Re: Upper and Lower Burying Grounds > Hi all, > > At 09:00 PM 9/28/00 -0400, GeneStackhouse wrote: > >Jan Lukens was a original subscriber to the Lower Burial Ground in 1737. He > >is listed in the original record book. Unfortunately, burials were not > >recorded until 1755. > >Jan is probably there but there is no indication as to where. > >The Lower Burial Ground is administered by the Germantown Historical Society > >(GHS) and I am on the Board of Directors of the cemetery as liaison with > >GHS. > > And -- > At 11:02 AM 9/30/00 -0400, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: > >I have pamphlet apparently printed by the Philadelphia Bicentennial > >Commision. It has a large 1776 and 1976 printed on it - Subject > > > > THE BURYING GROUND > > > >In 1692, nine years after the founding of Germantown, the Upper and > >Lower Burying Grounds of Germantown were created by a deed from Paul > >Wulff. Each burying ground had is own Trustees and kept separate > >records. > > > >The Upper Burying Ground Trustees "opened" their record book in 1761. > >Christian Lehman, the noted surveyor and conveyancer copies into the > >book records from various loose documents covering earlier > >transactions. Among these papers were the contributors to the front > >wall which was completed in May 1724. > > > I'm still confused. > It appears there were 2 early burial grounds, Upper and Lower, > each with its own record book, right? > > Is the earliest record of the Upper a list of contributors to the > front wall in 1724? > Does anyone have this list? > Does it include Thones Kunders (Dennis Conrad), who died in 1729? > (Of course if he did contribute to the wall, that is no > guarantee he was buried there; but that would be better > evidence than anything else we seem to have.) > > Is the earliest record for the Lower a list of "original subscribers" > in 1737? > If there are earlier records of any kind for the Lower going back to 1729, > do they mention Thones Kunders? > > Thanks for any enlightenment, > Howard > [email protected] > > > ==== ORIGINAL-13 Mailing List ==== > We ***LOVE*** Original Source Material on this List. Please share if > you can, and if you will... > If you wish to place restrictions upon its use, let us know. > > ============================== > Choose from over 19,000 mailing lists at: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/ >